Ferrari
VIP
.5 is not a code word for bantu, it is for minority clans like ree hamar, bantu, madhibaans, yibirs etc...^^ To my understanding, this all but means that in yet another way, the clan system has fucked Somalis eternally.
They’re basically saying what you really need is a reigning 1, and everyone else to be demoted to .5 (which I’m learning is code for Bantus)
But then again, attempted subjugation which royally backfired is what lead to this 30 year failed-state humiliation mode the country is currently undergoing.
Somali politics is a zero sum politics, and the 4.5 system , as unfair as it is, mitigates that. Under this system, none of the major clans hold all the power, hence no big clan can go chimp again like the last government which lead to the civil war.
These minorities clans arent murdered or abused, they just aren't well represented. Compare that to when they were murdered and abused in the 90s, and you will realize things are better today, far from acceptable, but so much better.
The goal is to move forward, bit by bit, and Somalis are extremely difficult people.
Centralism will not come back, at least not now, or in the near future because if it does, you can bet on that government going trigger happy and targeting other clans, and you can 100% bet on clans uprisiup like they did in the 80s and 90s.
Someone mentioned IQ and he is right.
Less than 70 years ago, 80% of Somalis would have been animal herders, that jungle mentality will take time to disappear.